In F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel This Side of Paradise, Amory Blaine searches for his identity by "mirroring" people he admires. However, these "mirrors" actually block him from finding his true self. He falls in love with women whose personalities intrigue him; he mimics the actions of men he looks up to. Eleanor Savage and Burne Holiday serve as prime examples of this. Until Amory loses his pivotal "mirror," Monsignor Darcy, he searches for his soul in all the wrong places. When Monsignor Darcy dies, Amory has the spiritual epiphany he needs to reach his "paradise" - the knowledge of who Amory Blaine truly is.

Amory appears to be a rather vacuous choice for a protagonist. He relies mainly on his breathtaking handsomeness and wealth in order to get by in life. He has been endowed with brains, but it takes him years to learn how and when to use them. Amory spends his late high school and college years frolicking with his peers and debutantes. By constantly associating with others Amory creates an image of himself that he maintains until he becomes bored or finds a new personality to imitate. Amory does not know who he really is, what he truly feels, or what he thinks. He merely cultivates his personality du jour depending on how he believes he would like to be. Essentially, Amory is shopping at a personality store, trying each one on until he can find one that fits.

This personality imitation began when Amory spent his adolescent years in the presence of his flamboyant mother, Beatrice. Beatrice raised Amory to be what she wanted him to be, as long as it was stylish and acceptable to coeval virtues. When he goes to Princeton, the separation from his mother, who essentially thought for him, leads Amory to search for himself. However, his idea of searching for his identity entails merely simulating the personalities of those he admires. This trend becomes obvious in the pattern...

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...Summary
ThisSide of Paradise chronicles the life of Amory Blaine. Born the son of a wealthy and sophisticated woman, Beatrice, he attends St. Regis prep school. He is handsome, quite intelligent and he earns admission to Princeton. He makes many acquaintances who have the same interests as him and who become his friends such as Tom, Burne, Kerry and Dick. Toward the end of his college career, Amory dutifully enlists for World War l. Upon his return to America, Amory meets the young debutante Rosalind Connage. The two fall deeply in love, but because of his family's poor investments, Amory has little money, and Rosalind does not wish to marry into poverty. Rosalind breaks off their engagement in order to marry a wealthier man, Dawson Ryde. He goes on a three week drinking binge, and becomes very depressed. Amory's quest for self-knowledge begins to be realized. He has a short summer romance with the wild Eleanor. He gives up chasing love, conformity and money and tries to find his place and his purpose.
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...﻿Around the time of its publication, Fitzgerald referred to ThisSide of Paradise as a "quest novel." It’s a’coming of age’ novel where the protagonist Amory Blaine attempts to make peace with himself and his place in the world. The three primary elements that influence Amory on his road to self-realization are convention, women, and money. As each of the three fails him, he comes closer to achieving his goal.
Several times in the novel, Amory reflects on what has influenced his development most. The initial influence is his unconventional mother, Beatrice. He tries to correct her influence by trying to fit in and behave conventionally at school. He attends school in the Midwest, then boarding school, and finally Princeton, trying hard to fit in at each. When he is finally successful, he discovers an emptiness in conformity. Amory abandons conformity half-way through Princeton, and gets back on the path of rediscovering who he is.
From a very early age, Amory is both attracted to and repelled by romantic involvement with women. After several failed loves, and after the war, he falls deeply in love with Rosalind, and she with him. But, refusing to marry someone without great wealth, Rosalind breaks Amory's heart. He tries love again with Eleanor, and may have been happy with her, but feels that having had his heart broken, he is incapable of love. Finally, he...

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ThisSide of Paradise Research Project
Many American authors worked hard to change American history. Fitgerald was one of the heroic authors. Fitzgerald quotes, " A big man has no time really to do anything but just and be big." F. Scott Fitzgerald lived his life as an amazing person. He contributed to the society with many fantastic stories. ThisSide of Paradise was the first book Fitzgerald published, that turned into an immediate success. Throughout his life, he was unsuccessful in overcoming his battle with alcoholism, depression of his loss and himself being an egotist. Amory Blaine was a main character that Fitzgerald portrayed as. Fitzgerald created a character who was smart, a man with arrogance yet was respected too. ThisSide of Paradise is about Amory Blaine finding himself through a journey. The life of Amory Blaine connected to the cultures around the early 1900s. Amory Blaine was neither rich nor poor. In the early 1900s young men were from wealthy families and had the opportunity to achieve education. ThisSide of Paradise gives a taste in what the years of 1920s and 1930s was like.
The main character in this story, Amory Blaine was arrogant and had various love losses. Amory...

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An Archetypal Criticism
An archetypal approach to literature assumes that there is a collection of symbols, images, characters, and motifs that evokes basically the same response in all people. According to the psychologist Carl Jung, mankind possesses a "collective unconscious" that contains these archetypes and that is common to all of humanity. When an author uses the archetypal approach, he selects a universal theme through which to tell his story. F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “ThisSide of Paradise” uses the dynamics of the mother-son relationship throughout the novel to develop AmoryBlaine’s character with all its foibles and weaknesses. Love is underlying universal theme. Amory is also a rebellious teenager who is contemptuous of the traditions and cultural norms of nineteenth century America – an archetype universally known and understood by all.
Amory is the protagonist of the novel. His early years are spent in the company of his mother and there is little mention of his father who seems to have had very little influence on Amory. They are wealthy and live an unusual life traveling around the country and moving in elite circles. Amory does not attend school in his younger...

...I read F. Scott Fitzgerald'sThisSide of Paradise. I enjoyed reading this book and would recommend this book to other people. There was one main character throughout this novel. The main characters name was Amory Blaine. Amory Blaine was a very attractive man who was truly in love with himself. Blaine fell in love with several women throughout the book. He truly falls in love with a woman named Rosalind who eventually ends up breaking his heart by marrying someone far richer than himself. With that happening Amory Blaine turns into more of a player. Amory attends a boarding school in the beginning of the novel and then he attends Princeton. Amory Blaine eventually gets a job in New York advertising but in the end he loses his friends and almost everything.
This story was basically about following the life of Amory Blaine. It starts out following him through his childhood and the book ends around the age of 24. Amory starts out attending St. Regis prep school and eventually ends up in World War 2 then quitting his advertising job in New York City. One of the only people Amory trusted all his life was a man named Monsignor Darcy, who Blaine considered a friend and father figure. Monsignor Darcy passes away in the summertime which leaves...

...﻿Egotism: Education, Economics, and Enjoyment
A literary analysis of ThisSide of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Micaela Berglund
3 White
10.26.13
The Turbo fluctuosa, a saltwater snail, spends its life climbing and falling from kelp; the snail continually builds itself up, simply to be knocked down again. This social pattern is likewise found in humans, who build up their egos to find what they need, lose it, and build again with little hesitation. Ego is built up in order to justify one’s education and. In addition, it can play a role in economic or financial proceedings. Along with education and economy, ego plays a role in the enjoyment of life, specifically the search to love and be loved. Egotism can play a profound role in one’s approach to education, economics, and social enjoyment, as exemplified by Amory Blaine in the novel ThisSide of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald.
ThisSide of Paradise is a thought-provoking novel set in the Jazz Age, which follows the life of a privileged boy, Amory Blaine, through his struggles into adulthood. In the beginning of the book, Amory travels to America with his unconventional, high status mother. He goes off to boarding school, then Princeton, and then overseas in World War I. He is an egotist, expressing himself constantly, from...

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I intend to stay in heaven
While the sun is high
Heaven has turned out to be
Thisside of the sky
There’s another way of thinking
I believe in love
I believe life should be lived before it’s over
On this golden summer evening
River flowing by
Maybe heavens always been
Thisside of the sky
Never seen a place so peaceful
Like a fairy-tale
With no sign of any dragons in the forest
I’m not used to being happy
Makes me want to cry
Never knew all this was waiting thisside of the sky
There’s another way of living
I believe in love
I believe life must be lived before it’s over
There’s another way to heaven
No one has to die
Maybe heavens always been thisside of the sky
There’s another way to heaven
We don’t have to die
If we’re lucky we’ll find heaven
Thisside of the sky
There’s another way to heaven
I believe I know
Look around
So many pleasures for the taking
I intend to stay in heaven
While the sun is high
Heaven has turned out to be
Thisside of the sky
There’s another way of thinking
I believe in love
I believe life should be lived before it’s over
On this golden summer evening
River flowing by
Maybe heavens always been
Thisside of the sky
Never seen a place so peaceful...